Where to Watch April’s Solar Eclipse / / No Comments On April 8, 2024 people across large parts of the USA will be able to see a total solar eclipse. If it isn’t cloudy.In 1999 I traveled to France to experience a total solar eclipse. Unfortunately the experience was ruined slightly by overcast skies. What made it even more galling was to discover that a friend of mine had traveled independently from me and had a cloudless view of the eclipse Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: April's, Eclipse, Solar, Watch
The 12 Best Daily Map Games / / No Comments Ever since Josh Wardle released his very popular daily Wordle game in 2022 there has been a plethora of daily geography challenges which have been unleashed upon us, the geographically challenged public. The latest of these is Unzoomed.Every day Unzoomed presents you with the satellite image of a random city, which could be located anywhere in the world. All you have to do is name the city. You Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: best, Daily, Games
Car Commutes are Getting Longer / / No Comments During the height of the Covid epidemic a number of visualizations were created to show the drop in road traffic and public transit use. As people were forced to quarantine and work from home our roads and transit networks saw an observable fall in traffic.For example Buzzfeed teamed up with Mapbox to create a series of interactive mapped visualizations showing the reduction in road traffic in Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Commutes, Getting, longer
Using AI to Age OSM Maps / / No Comments The screenshot above, from the SynthMap Demo, shows a side-by-side view of an Open Street Map and an AI generated map of the same OSM data changed to look like a 19th Century era Ordnance Survey map. This Victorian cosplaying map (on the right) was developed by Zekun Li, of the University of Minnesota, who trained an AI to transform OpenStreetMap data into images that resemble the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: maps, using
Adding URL Parameters to an Interactive Map / / No Comments It’s Saturday so I have decided to give myself a 30 minute break. Today I will only be spending ½ an hour on the One Hour AI Map Challenge. In these 30 minutes I want to create URL parameters for Meet in the Middle which will allow us to replace the Google Maps link for shared meeting points with a link back to our own map.Prompt No.1:how can i add url parameters to a leaflet.js map to show Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Adding, Interactive, Parameters
Plasticine Earth / / No Comments Google Arts & Culture has used AI to turn the world into colorful dough. In this game your task is to identify famous cultural monuments around the world while turning unformed blobs of plasticine into colorful 3d models of the very same monuments.Each game of Google Un-Dough starts with a 3D plasticine globe. To begin the game you just need to spin this globe and select the country whose Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Earth, Plasticine
Mapping the Drift-backing of Refugees / / No Comments ‘Drift-back’ is a controversial practice which is used by some coast guard services, particularly in the Aegean Sea, to deter asylum seekers and prevent them from reaching their intended destination. It involves intercepting boats carrying asylum seekers within EU territorial waters, then forcing them back towards the country they departed from. This is sometimes allegedly done by loading Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Driftbacking, Mapping, refugees
The Interactive Turbulence Map / / No Comments Are you hoping for a smooth flight? This map predicts turbulence on your flight, warning of potential bumpy patches on your journey. Enter your flight details into the map and it will provide real-time turbulence forecasts with color-coded severity levels, updated every 6 hours. The Interactive Turbulence Map shows you how much turbulence you can expect on your flight. Enter the name of Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Interactive, Turbulence